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Without practical skills it is impossible to master the profession of a doctor. This year, forty-five IV-th and V-th year students of our university did their summer practical training at the universities-partners of KhNMU within the framework of the academic exchange programme. The students were selected according to the results of the competition, which took place at the university in February-March 2017, and they honorably represented our HEI in 5 foreign and 1 Ukrainian universities.

We are grateful to the administration, the employees of the offices of international relations and of practical training, to all those who cared for our students at:

- West Kazakhstan Marat Ospanov State Medical University (Aktobe, Kazakhstan);

- Tbilisi State Medical University (Tbilisi, Georgia);

- Wroclaw Medical University (Wroclaw, Poland);

- Tehran University of Medical Sciences (Tehran, Iran).

For the students it was a very useful experience. The programme of the practice was eventful, but they not only acquired practical skills of clinical work, but also had an opportunity to get acquainted with culture and traditions of another country, they got the experience of intercultural communication and made new friends. In Wroclaw, Tehran, Tbilisi, the students also had an opportunity to practice their English.

I. Gorbachevsky Ternopil State Medical University (Ternopil, Ukraine)

Belarusian State Medical University (Minsk, Belarus)

West Kazakhstan Marat Ospanov State Medical University (Aktobe, Kazakhstan)